Pic Of The Moment: Window Into The Mind Of A Gun Nut

[EarlG]

GOP Senate Candidate: UCSB Shooting An 'Unfortunate Accident'

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[Scuba]

1. No shit? She called it an "accident"? No shit? Unbelievable.

[yuiyoshida]

43. And Unfortunate Accident???

Yes, Officer the GUN WENT OFF several times by mistake..and killed a few people .. the Gun accidentally went off and shot the owner in the head finally. That Damn gun needed maintenance badly, every time you put bullets in it, It would misfire and would kill a few people.

[Brickbat]

2. I thought you weren't supposed to point a gun at something unless you wanted to destroy it.

[valerief]

5. Right. She wants to destroy us. She'll get richer, if she does. nt

[tclambert]

25. That was my first thought, too.

Anybody who points a gun right at the camera is NOT a responsible gun owner.

[Brickbat]

29. Finger on the trigger, too.

Unacceptable.

[Travis_0004]

30. Why does it matter?

Nobody said there is a person holding the camera. Put the camera on a tripod, with a remote trigger, and the photographer is not in harms way. Or use a prop gun.

[Brickbat]

37. I was talking about the camera.

And always handle prop or toy guns as if they were real. Don't you?

[plantwomyn]

60. This is why it matters.

You NEVER put your finger on the trigger unless and until you intend to shoot. She loaded and racked the weapon prior to pointing it. So she wanted the viewer to believe that it was a REAL LOADED weapon. She did not shoot PAST your hypothetical tripod held camera. All of the shoots fired were filmed from behind. She COULD have shown an example of gun safety, she chose not to do so.

Oh and for a someone with military training it's pretty amateur to close one eye, the wrong eye at that, and quite noticeably flinch when shooting.
Anyone with weapons experience would see this ad as the publicity stunt that it is. Just saying.

[geardaddy]

3. Fuckwit.

[SoapBox]

19. Ditto the Fuckwit.

[Blue Owl]

4. Joni looks ready to make your day, punk

n/t

[frylock]

15. yep, a real Johnny Badass there

[Ikonoklast]

53. Remember three weeks ago or so when suddenly they were all spouting the latest?

She has to do something to counter the meme pointed at Hillary Clinton that was floated by the RW think tanks that voting for any woman makes a Real Man weak and effeminate, you know, because all women are weak.



Of course, cognitive dissonance being part and parcel of being a right-wing nutjob, they don't see Republican women as women I guess.

A Republican woman running for office needs to be seen as just another "one of the boys". I'm surprised she didn't get her picture taken while in a pickup truck with a lift kit and a rebel flag while swigging from a bottle of Jack while pointing that pistol.

[frylock]

66. maybe a goatee as well

[Ikonoklast]

71. No, that would make her Evil Spock.

[bullwinkle428]

6. Iowa Republicans felt like Sarah Palin came across as too much of an intellectual, so

this clown emerged as the front-runner for the Repuke Senate candidacy.

[toby jo]

16. "Sarah Palin came across as too much of an intellectual"

ok, so there's some words put together like I'd never thought I'd see.

[Scarsdale]

56. Yeah, right.

Where are the photos of Ernst doing what she claims to do on a daily basis, castrating animals?? She sounds like another $carah PayMe, only better dressed and looking CLEAN.

[LuckyLib]

24. And neighboring Minnesota had it's own bat-shit crazy

Michelle Bachmann, so Iowa Rs decided to jump on the Looney Women Bandwagon!

[IADEMO2004]

31. DUzy DUzy DUzy

That just has to be in the running for a DUzy

[47of74]

7. I call her Joni Squeal Like A Pig Ernst

She had an earlier commercial about castrating pigs growing up

[Cha]

50. Oh gawd!

[wandy]

8. It would appear that "Unfortunate Accidents' don't trump Teapublicans ............

second amendment rights.

Hay, haven't I heard that before this week.

Joni Ernst (R-Joni the Plumber)

[Bettie]

9. She's a nutjob

Each of her ads make her look crazier than the last.

She even sounds nuttier than Steve King, which is not easy.

[47of74]

61. Lots of idiots in western Iowa.

And I say that as a lifelong Iowan.

[Bettie]

62. We're transplanted

And I'm SO glad we're in Eastern IA than Western.

But, we're Midwestern all the way...Wisconsin born and raised (DH and me), IL for a few years, then on to Iowa.

Luckily, I don't think someone that extreme could win a state wide election. At least I hope not.

[valerief]

10. So if someone blew her head off it would be an unfortunate accident?

Or an accident?

[FiveGoodMen]

12. Certainly not unfortunate.

[Ccarmona]

27. Or

if it were one of her children?

[dickthegrouch]

11. If I'd been the photographer on that 'shoot',

She'd be in jail for threatening behavior.

I once asked a vendor to remove one of their promotional slides from a deck I was displaying because the gun in it seemed to be pointed at me. They complied and thanked me for the perspective.

[santamargarita]

13. It looks like an ugly bank robber

[Tikki]

14. These people have bonded with a hunk of metal and not with fellow humans who are not a gun and, so..

are not powerful enough for there consideration.

These people are like frightened babies with killer rattles.
Tikki

[valerief]

17. ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said North Carolina resident Samuel Wipper, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this,36131/

[Half-Century Man]

18. Yo Dippy

What responsible (knowledgeable) gun owner puts their finger on a trigger of a gun pointed at someone else?

Are you the child of Palin and Gohmert?

[Omaha Steve]

20. In final debate in Iowa GOP Senate race, front-runners Joni Ernst and Mark Jacobs tread carefully

http://www.omaha.com/news/iowa/in-final-debate-in-iowa-gop-senate-race-front-runners/article_e82ffcdf-935c-526c-bc28-0832f9aa91fd.html

POSTED: FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2014 1:00 AM
Associated Press |

DES MOINES (AP) — The leaders in Iowa’s Republican U.S. Senate primary played it safe during their final debate Thursday night.

State Sen. Joni Ernst refused to name a would-be presidential candidate she admired, one who will likely be campaigning in her state next year. And her chief rival, businessman Mark Jacobs, declined to critique Ernst, as his campaign has been more willing to do through mail and television advertising.

The candidates took few chances in their last opportunity to interact, despite the high stakes of Tuesday’s vote. The winner goes on to face Democrat Bruce Braley in Iowa’s first campaign for an open Senate seat in 40 years and one of the more closely watched contests in the GOP’s effort to gain the six seats it needs for the majority.

“I was focused on substantive solutions,” Jacobs said after the 90-minute televised debate.

FULL story at link.

[BrainMann1]

21. Here is another sick puppy.

[MADem]

22. Better watch out for her, though--she "grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm!"

Her motto? "Let's make 'em SQUEAL!!!"

No, I am not shitting you:

[Flying Squirrel]

38. ...

[MADem]

40. See--she IS a nutjob!!! nt

[Ikonoklast]

23. Just another Responsible Gun Owner®.

Gunners will now No True Scotsman her.

[BrotherIvan]

39. ^^This!^^

Her guns aren't safe but mine are! They're just tools. Don't take away my hobby. If only she had learned gun safety from the womb, because we should be teaching all those kids who haven't learned to read yet to not blow their little cousins away. But guns are safer than knives and cars. Blah blah guns blah blah self defense blah blah civil rights!

[Major Hogwash]

42. Her answer sounds to me like she has never been to a morgue.

Which is one of the worst places to have to go to after someone is killed.
So, as a result, as a state Senator she is still ignorant of the impact that shootings have on some of her constituents.

[Ikonoklast]

52. She does not care.

Other people's dead children are not her problem, she lives in a society where it doesn't happen to anyone that "matters".

[tclambert]

26. GM and Ford recently recalled some unsafe cars. Shouldn't somebody recall unsafe guns?

The cars could malfunction and cause actual accidents. Though Joni Ernst calls a mass shooting an accident, I suppose you could argue the guns used in mass shootings functioned just like the manufacturers and owners intended.

[Ikonoklast]

54. I am forced by the government to insure my private vehicle when driving on public roads.

if RWNJ's want to characterize murder done by firearms as accidents, then the person carrying a firearm in public concealed or not needs to carry insurance against any 'accidents'.

[Turbineguy]

28. You watch enough Fox News

and you listen to enough RW Hate Radio and pretty soon you think this is how people should behave.

[blkmusclmachine]

32. Never

Really

Accountable

[mstinamotorcity2]

33. They love Guns

more than children. While our kids are dying in the street and everywhere else including schools, grocery stores, and movie theaters. Weapons manufacturers are getting RICHER!!.

[oldandhappy]

34. A long time ago (1957 -1961)

I went to college in Iowa. I can vouch for the fact that there are sane thinking people there. I do not understand how someone such as this gets all the airtime. I hope she is defeated soundly.

[colsohlibgal]

35. Gun Nuts Are Like Another Species

I don't get it at all, I never will. Now I am a female - but no men I knew of in my family was a gun fanatic, quite the opposite.

Amazingly enough I am still here and healthy despite never holding or shooting a firearm.

We need to get a grip on this soon or more innocent citizens will be senselessly gunned down. Maybe me or maybe a second amendment fanatic.

They keep ramming the 2nd Amendment down our throats and yet they have it all wrong. It has to do with "a well regulated militia being necessary for the security of the state". They blow off the "well regulated" part and blow off the "militia" definition as a pre requisite. We had no standing army way, way back then, so a standing militia was a must.

So this relates to the current day not at all. We have a ridiculously large defense department, we no longer need a militia. This was never meant to guarantee a gun, one or more of todays firearms that the founders could never have imagined, to any half wit who wants them.

Our rights to be secure in our person trump the rights of everyone to arm up to the teeth. Mr. Martin, who my heart goes out to, had it exactly right.

[TNNurse]

36. Anyone who called that shooting in Santa Barbara

AN ACCIDENT, NEEDS AN IMMEDIATE PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION, perhaps even emergency committal for an evaluation.

[Major Hogwash]

41. She's completely coo-coo.

She is pointing her pistol at the camera with her finger on the trigger!!

I suppose her reply to that criticism would be "well, the pistol was not loaded".

To which I would say, an unloaded pistol is worthless as a weapon.

She thinks she is tuff stuff in that black leather jacket, pointing a pistol that way, but I'll bet she has never been shot at before.
There's something about being shot at that changes one's opinion of just how effective a pistol can be.

[Ken Burch]

47. Maybe she just realized she couldn't afford to PAY that photographer. n/t.

[Cha]

51. lol dark humor but shit with an idiot like that.. wtf knows?

[GeorgeGist]

44. Leathers for the biker set?

[GeorgeGist]

45. Ms. Ernst ...is an accident waiting to happen.

[Ken Burch]

46. In her next ad, will she use that gun to castrate hogs at fifty paces? n/t.

[3catwoman3]

59. Don't give her...

...any ideas.

I would not faint from shock if we heard that she has already done so.

[mwrguy]

48. Does she post in the gungeon?

[Cha]

49. "Accident"?! What is she, stupid?

[HughBeaumont]

55. "Because 'accident' implies there's nobody to blame."

[PatrynXX]

57. oddly if you follow NRA rules she isn't

you would get some shit for aiming that gun at the camera.

[thesquanderer]

58. Not defending her, but...

...I think all the posts about the word "accident" are overblown.

I have a feeling she meant to say "unfortunate incident."

It's an easy kind of mis-speak.

I'd rather she was taken to task over her views rather than a word, I think making an issue out of what was probably a slip of the tongue is a distraction from real issues.

[HangOnKids]

67. NO

Just that she did not mis-speak.

[dballance]

63. I'd try to make fun of her but I'm not sure what to add.

If I didn't know better I'd think this was satire by the Onion.

I'm not sure how I could do better than to use her actual statements in condemnation of her.

[krobar659]

64. Another Idiot From Iowa!

I am from Iowa but please don't judge me on this stupid twat! If elected, she will join forces with another twat from Iowa, Steve King! Please help us keep our Children safe from these idiots! That is all. Thank you very much!

[red dog 1]

65. I hope Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) beats the crap out of her this November

http://www.brucebraley.com/

[LeftishBrit]

68. On what planet is someone going on a shooting rampage an 'accident'?

[Helen Borg]

69. Very low emotional intelligence. She won't last long.

[shalliyt]

70. gunny nutty

hello! I am not one to become involved in politics. I loathe it. all of it . However I am kind of mixed between gun control but not totally against having guns so long you are a responsible person and learn exactly how to act with a gun. I think that some types of bullets should be banned like hollow points. they are horrible And why would anyone need military weapons as arms? I mean come on that's really extreme, right? However, I think that a lot of people should research something's out. I mean information highway? I think it would benefit from learning about a certain phrase before using it to further certain causes.

Anyway the whole reason I choose to come here tonight is to share a very interesting article I found last night. I started out wondering what Molon labe means and how the Gun nuts as you call would really benefit educational wise research some adage that they believe is helping their cause but it really isn't. Hence the importance of researching stuff out especially today on the information highway. They or just about all of us would appear somewhat intelligent.




http://newtrajectory.blogspot.com/2013/06/molon-labe-was-uttered-by-arms.html